Clearing the standards landscape: The semantics of terminology and their impact on toxicogenomics

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 403-412

  Burgoon, Lyle D ^a  

^a Toxicogenomic Informatics and Solutions LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled vocabulary; Data standards; Markup language; Object model; Ontology; Toxicogenomics

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; DATA SYNTHESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NOMENCLATURE; OBJECT RELATION; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS MODEL; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; TOXICOGENETICS; TOXICOGENOMICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; SEMANTICS; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; HUMANS; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TOXICOGENETICS;

EID: 38449088093     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfm108     Document Type: Review

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